Tarun Mandal

Voluntarily retired from the post of Chief Medical Officer (Selection Grade), ISPH, Nashik in july 2007;Participated in (i) disaster management works such as rendering free medical services as member and leader of Medical Service Centre, a socio-medical voluntary organisation functioning at different places for the last 32 years namely West Bengal floods, Assam floods, Supercyclone Orissa, Kosi flood Bihar, Mumbai flood (2005), Baroda and Surat floods (2005-06), Tsunami, Andaman Nicobar Islands, Earthquake, Gujrat, Aila Cyclone, Sunderbans, West Bengal, Kolkata and Mumbai slums: (ii) Health movements organised for improvement of medical education, health care delivery system of West Bengal and India; (iii)participated in the people`s resistance movement of Singur and Nandigram against land grabbing; and (iv) working for protection and upliftment of medical ethics and for pro-people scientific health policies;